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accession number: 1966.30
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Standing Buddha, c. 900. India, Kashmir. Brass with silver and copper inlay; overall: 98.1 cm (38 5/8 in.); base: 28.2 cm (11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1966.30
title: Standing Buddha
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creation date: c. 900
creation date earliest: 895
creation date latest: 905
current location: 237 Himalayan
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: India, Kashmir
technique: brass with silver and copper inlay
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 98.1 cm (38 5/8 in.); Base: 28.2 cm (11 1/8 in.)
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inscription: inscribed with the name of the monk who owned it: Lhatsun Nagaraja (active from c. 998 to 1026)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Art of Tibet
opening date: 1969-04-10T05:00:00
The Art of Tibet. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (April 10-June 8, 1969); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (July 1-August 30, 1969); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (October 1-November 15, 1969).
title: Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an Early "Western Tibetan" Style
opening date: 2001-04-24T00:00:00
Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an Early "Western Tibetan" Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 24-June 24, 2001).
title: Arts of Kashmir
opening date: 2007-10-21T00:00:00
Arts of Kashmir. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 3, 2007-January 6, 2008).
title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00
Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': "Dieux et démons de l'Himâlaya : art du bouddhisme lamaïque. Grand-Palais, Paris, France (March 25–June 27, 1977); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (August 5–October 16, 1977).", 'opening_date': '1977-06-27T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (March 4-May 20, 1984); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (June 30–August 26, 1984); The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (November 1, 1984–February 10, 1985).', 'opening_date': '1984-03-04T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Wisdom and compassion : the sacred art of Tibet. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (April 17–August 18, 1991); IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY (October 15–December 28, 91); Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (September 18–December 13, 1992).', 'opening_date': '1991-08-18T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(J.J. Klejman [1906–1995], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1966
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1966–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 232
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n256
Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64.
page number: Reproduced: p. 35; Mentioned: p. 63-64
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Lee, Sherman E. “Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 53, no. 7, 1966, pp. 181–284.
page number: Reproduced: no. 156, p. 251; Mentioned: no. 156, p. 284
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152110
“Art – The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Golden Show.” Newsweek (September 12, 1966).
page number: Reproduced: p. 102
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"Cleveland museum of art golden anniversary." Archaeology, October 1966, vol. 19, pp. 277-283.
page number: p. 279
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Burton, Richard. “Fifty Years of the Cleveland Museum of Art: Some Golden Anniversary Acquisitions.” The Connoisseur, vol 163:656 (October 1966) pp. 128-135.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 134
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“'Golden Anniversary' Acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 108, no. 764, 1966, pp. 574–579.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 48, p. 576
url: www.jstor.org/stable/875138
Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 34
url:
“Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1966.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 21, 1967, pp. 75–103.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 79, fig. 15
url: www.jstor.org/stable/20110997
Lee, Sherman E. “Clothed in the Sun: A Buddha and a Surya from Kashmir.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 2, 1967, pp. 42–63.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 42, 45, fig. 3
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152142
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 232
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n256
Fricke, Berthold. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 90
url:
Pal, Pratapaditya. Bronzes of Kashmir. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1975.
page number: no. 26, pp. 39, 100
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Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), Réunion des musées nationaux (France), and Haus der Kunst München. Dieux et démons de l'Himâlaya: art du bouddhisme lamaïque : [exposition], Grand-Palais, 25 mars-27 juin 1977. Paris: Secrétariat d'État à la culture, Éditions des musées nationaux, 1977.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 36, p. 90
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Archeologie, no. 107 (June 1977), p. 40
page number:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 294
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n314
Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E., and Maximilian Klimburg. The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes. Los Angeles, CA: Published under the sponsorship of the UCLA Art Council, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 103, pl. 27
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Pal, Pratapaditya, and Robert L. Brown. Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian Art. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 114, pp. 230-231
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Harle, J. C. The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1987.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 196, p. 194
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Pal, Pratapaditya. A Pot-Pourri of Indian Art. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1988.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 87, fig. 10
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Czuma, Stanislaw. "A Unique Addition to the School of Kashmiri Ivories." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 8 (1988): 298-319.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 310, fig. 19
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160044
Rhie, Marylin M., and Robert A. F. Thurman. Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 4, p. 42
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Stanislaw J. Czuma, “Some Tibetan and Tibet-Related Acquisitions of the Cleveland Museum of Art”, Oriental Art (Winter 1992/93) vol 38:4.
page number: Reproduced: p. 240
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Fussman, Gérard. “Chilas, Hatun et les Bronzes Buddhiques du Cachemere.” pp. 1-60. In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan, vol. 2. Mainz: Verlag von Zabern, 1993.
page number: pp. 50-51
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Harle, J. C. The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 146, p. 194
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Lee, Sherman E., and Naomi Noble Richard. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 161, p. 130
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Rhie, Marylin M., Robert A. F. Thurman, and John Bigelow Taylor. Weisheit und Liebe: 1000 Jahre Kunst des tibetischen Buddhismus. Bonn: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1996.
page number: Represent: fig. 4, p. 42
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Reedy, Chandra L. Himalayan Bronzes: Technology, Style, and Choices. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1997.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 166, fig. K76
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Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 154-155
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Sugimura, Tō 杉村棟. Isurāmu イスラーム. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999.
page number: no. 35, p. 59
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Chuvin, Pierre, and Gilles Béguin. Les arts de l'Asie Centrale. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 1999.
page number: Reproduced: p. 246, no. 295
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: no. 100, p. 90; Mentioned: no. 100, p. 119
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Pal, Pratapaditya, Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinüber, and Gautamavajra Vajrācārya. Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of California Press and Mapin Pub, 2003.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 93, fig. 3 and entry 75, p. 122
url:
Czuma, Stanislaw, "Great Acquisitions and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art," Orientations, An Issue in Honour of Sherman E. Lee (Jan/Feb 2005), vol. 36, no. 1.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 86
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Phillips, Kristy. "An American Engagement with Kashmiri Art," Orientations 38, no. 7 (October 2007): pp. 63-68.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 5
url:
Stoddard, Heather. Early Sino-Tibetan Art. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2008.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 30-31, fig. 16a-16b.
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Béguin, Gilles. Buddhist Art: An Historical and Cultural Journey. Bangkok: River Books, 2009.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 98, fig. 86
url:
Weldon, David. "Two Bronzes from the Western Himalayas Revisited". Orientations 42, No. 5 (June 2011): pp. 65-69.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 67, fig. 1
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Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 82-83
url:
Siudmak, John. The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences. Boston: Brill, 2013.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 476, pl. 226
url:
Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 05, September/October 2013
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 16
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-05/page/16
Wang, Michelle C. Maṇḍalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: p. 77, fig. 24
url:
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